Saturday
Kolkata: In a major goof-up, an advertisement inserted in newspapers by the Eastern Railway shows Delhi in Pakistan and Kolkata in the Bay of Bengal.
New Delhi: Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar will face trial in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases as a Delhi Court refers the cases to a Special CBI Court, rejecting a plea by him.
Sunday
Bhubaneshwar: India becomes the first country to have a 'manoeuvrable' supersonic cruise missile when it successfully test-fires the vertical-launch version of 290-km range BrahMos from a warship in the Bay of Bengal off the Orissa coast.
Mumbai: Security agencies press for questioning the estranged wife of US terror accused David Headley, as certain e-mails downloaded from his account shows her alleged complicity in the Mumbai terror attack.
Monday
Kolkata/Ranchi/Raipur: Maoists blew up a road bridge in Jharkhand, torches a CPI(M) office and sets off a blast near a railway track in West Bengal in a violent start to the 48-hour bandh called by them in seven states demanding an end to security operations.
Gandhinagar: Giving a new twist, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who refuses to appear before the SIT, calls as a "lie" that the Supreme-court appointed panel had fixed March 21 for questioning him in connection with the 2002 riots.
Tuesday
Kolkata: Five persons are killed in a devastating fire that swept through a 150-year-old multi- storeyed building housing offices and residences on upscale Park Street.
Siliguri: Kanu Sanyal, the legendary founder of the Naxalite movement of the 60s in West Bengal, that heralded a violent struggle and had claimed thousands of lives, dies apparently by committing suicide.
New Delhi: In an observation that will cheer votaries of pre-marital sex and live-in-partners, the Supreme Court opines that a man and woman living together without marriage cannot be construed as an offence.
Wednesday
Kolkata: The caretaker of the 150-year-old heritage building on upscale Park Street and his assistant are arrested for negligence and other charges as the toll in the fire that swept through it climbed to 24 with the recovery of eight more bodies.
Gandhinagar: Ending suspense over his appearance before the Supreme Court-appointed SIT probing the 2002 Gujarat riots, Chief Minister Narendra Modi agrees to present himself before the panel on March 27.
Chennai: The fight for succession in the ruling DMK resurfaces with party chief M Karunanidhi's elder son and Union minister M K Alagiri refusing to accept anyone other than his father as his leader.
Thursday
Mumbai: Amitabh Bachchan becomes the centre of a controversy over his presence at a government function here prompting Chief Minister Ashok Chavan to remark that he would not have attended it if he had known that the megastar, a brand ambassador for Gujarat, was there.
New Delhi: In a surprise development, Uma Bharti quits Bharatiya Janashakti, a party she had founded and was heading after being sacked from BJP in 2005.
Friday
Rae Bareli: The ghost of Babri Masjid demolition returns to haunt top BJP leader L K Advani when a senior woman police officer deposed in a Special Court that he gave a provocative speech in Ayodhya moments before the mosque was demolished by sangh parivar activists.
New Delhi: Self-exiled painter M F Husain, who has taken up Qatar citizenship, cannot be compelled to return to India by the courts or the Prime Minister, the Supreme Court observes refusing to direct dropping of criminal cases against him.
